Time To Redeem The Time Part 2.

Esau's Profile In The Church Today.

According to Genesis 25:27-34 and Hebrews 12:16, Esau was profane and had little or no regard for spiritual things. He was adventurous, self motivated, self driven, a go-getter, a physical result/profit-oriented man, who saw little or no profit in a spiritual inheritance to be conferred with just words/pronouncements of blessing. He was a daring and bold hunter like Nimrod, who was a mighty hunter before the Lord(See Genesis 10:8-10).

Esau was just not the man for the spiritual inheritance. He casually sold his birthright for a morsel of meat, yet before the time and day came for the release into the blessing of the inheritance, he had ample opportunity and time to redeem the time, but he saw no need for that. He lacked spiritual understanding and sight, thus, he walked like a mere/carnal man who cannot receive the things of the Spirit of God, as they are foolishness unto him. To him anything that wouldn't profit him physically/materially, meant nothing; he was not a man who walked with God, but a man of his own way and always sought to have things go his way.

Genesis 25  '32  And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me.  '34  Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.

Hebrews 12:16-17   "Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears".

What he neglected, what he despised, what he treated with levity and the nonchalant chant of "it doesn't matter" or "does it really matter?", became a matter of life and death in the nick of time. When he was to receive the inheritance, the time to receive the inheritance, was the most critical moment as it would be for the church. He however, failed to redeem the time and his wasted years of irrelevant labour and adventures in the field. 
It was a crucial time of conclusion, and the inheritance once released/conferred, on whosoever was ready and rightly positioned for it, would never be reversed. A very decisive moment indeed, and Esau was found wanting, and thus rejected not finding any place for a reversal though he sought it carefully with tears. See Genesis 27:30-41.

Finally, we are in a time of conclusion, and it is not a time for trial and error, it is a time of precision. We must have now the precision of heaven and move strictly according to divine will and counsel, in order to redeem our wasted years of irrelevant labour and maximise/make most of the little time we have. If we are not in fellowship with the understanding/knowledge of the will of the Lord, then we are walking as fools/simpletons and not circumspectly as wise.
Proverbs 22:3 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished. 

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